Adjustable optics Researchers Dongqing Lin and Magnus Jonsson examine a conducting polymer nanoantenna array in the scanning electron microscope at Linköping University. (Courtesy: Thor Balkhed) A ...

Overlapping courses 10 credits overlap with TEK4010 – Optics and Light. Teaching The teaching includes 3 hours of lectures and 2 hours of group/laboratory exercises each week throughout the semester.

Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." ...

Electrons play many roles in solid materials. When they are weakly bound and able to travel—i.e., mobile—they can enable ...

Light is everywhere, and it's made of photons,tiny particles that move at the speed of light through space, traveling vast distances in an instant. When you turn on a light in a room, photons begin to ...

Dubbed the “QIScope” by its creators, the device’s highly sensitive camera can detect extremely low levels of light and could be used to observe delicate biostructures in greater detail and over ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.

Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems.

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — It was Petty Officer Scott Ruskan’s first mission as a US Coast Guard rescue swimmer. The 26-year-old was new to the Coast Guard. He had left a previous career as ...

The biggest disparities were in deaths from gun violence and traffic accidents; kids in the US were 15 times more likely than their counterparts in other countries to die by firearms and more than ...